9:04pm: The decision to pick up D’Antoni’s option is official, the team tweets.
6:00pm: The Rockets have picked up the option year on head coach Mike D’Antoni‘s contract, which guarantees the deal through the 2019/20 season, Mark Berman of Fox 26 tweets.
D’Antoni originally signed a three year, $15MM contract with a fourth-year team option when he was named Houston’s head coach in June 2016.
D’Antoni has enjoyed a career revival of sorts with the Rockets. His reputation took a hit after stints with the Knicks and Lakers went sour. He found work as Brett Brown’s associate head coach for two seasons before the Rockets gave him another shot to be a head man.
It turned out to be a wise decision. D’Antoni was named the NBA Coach of the Year last summer after the team won 55 regular-season games and reached the Western Conference semifinals. The Rockets had the league’s best record this season at 65-17, then came up one win shy of the Finals during the conference finals, an outcome that might have changed if Chris Paul hadn’t missed the last two games against the Warriors with a hamstring injury.
I love how everyone stresses they came within 1 game of beating Golden State.
Who cares they still found out why the Clippers could never get over the hump…..CP3! Dude gets hurt pretty much every post season.
I’m not convinced he’s a good coach. He wasn’t a good coach on the Knicks.
Or the Lakers…
But he fits on the Rockets.
He’s missing something….
Denver – failed
Phoenix – WCF exits ×3
Team USA – Bronze
NY – failed
Houston – WCF exit
Like his philosophy of play but… not convinced he is a good coach at all, definitely overrated.